There is no rising and setting sun, no waxing and waning moon, and no twinkling stars. Regardless of day or night, the entire sky is blood-colored all the year round. Under the blood light, even the land is red. Occasionally mixed with black spots, the air is always filled with a faint smell of blood and sulfur.
Weeping Blood City is a medium-sized city one of countless large and small cities scattered in the abyss plane. Of course, the three words "Weeping Blood City" have been translated, otherwise it would sound like a series of meaningless grunts to us. . It was founded fifteen thousand years ago by a powerful Abyss Blood Demon. It changed owners several times, and now the city owner has become the current Balor Fire Demon. It will continue to change owners in the future until the city is completely destroyed.
It should be noted that because the land in the abyssal plane is extremely vast and desolate, the cities here cover a very large area. Compared with other abyssal cities, the City of Weeping Blood, which is only a medium-sized city, is compared with Pompeii. , but it is a full 5 times bigger!
Black Whip is an underworld evil spirit living in Weeping Blood City. Its humanoid body and red skin are its symbols, and the most satisfying thing about it is the pair of small sharp horns on its forehead, which can help it A useful weapon to seduce the evil ghost girl in the underworld.
In fact, among all the types of demons in the abyss plane, the underworld demons are not too weak. Generally, they can become fourth-level demons after they reach adulthood, which is slightly stronger than the fourth-level professionals on the Endres continent. But in the Weeping Blood City where the fifth level is everywhere and the fourth level is as numerous as dogs, it has always been Black Whip's creed to be a demon with his tail between his legs. He has seen too many "murders in the alley".
To the abyss demons, law and order are nothing but chaos, and chaos and killing are their hobbies. For example, when there is no strong restraint in the wild, two demons who are playing well in the city will subconsciously stay hundreds of meters away from each other. If they get too close, the other party may take out their heart in the next moment. There is no reason. It's all to satisfy the bloodthirsty desire. Maybe one demon who has completed the killing will hold the body of the other demon and cry.
Even in the designated safe areas of the city, as long as you don't do it in front of the supervisor, killing other demons is nothing. This "face" is the real "front", that is to say, you stabbed a demon in the head from behind the supervisor to kill it, and then the supervisor turned around and saw you pulling out the knife, and even grinned. Act like nothing happened. Of course, if the victim is still breathing when the knife is pulled out, you will regret coming into this world, and the watchers are happy to do that.
Let¡¯s talk about Brother Black Whip. He used to be frightened at the slightest movement, but recently he has a rare expression of pride on his face.
Indeed, he was proud of it. Two months ago, for some unknown reason, a fourth-level high-level fire demon found it particularly distasteful. Realizing that something was wrong, Black Whip quietly hid out of the city. Unexpectedly, a Li Qixue was hiding behind it. A hole in the plane barrier appeared in the mountains far away from the city!
The hole in the plane barrier is caused by the plane barrier being too weak. It can be compared to a window that is opened unintentionally by the plane barrier, connecting the plane spaces on both sides of the barrier, and even allowing creatures from the two planes to reach through it. Another plane, but restricted by the laws of the plane, the more powerful the creature, the harder it is to pass through this window.
Through the hole in the plane barrier, Black Whip could even see the moist gray land that was very different from the abyss plane. After exploring it excitedly, it sighed dejectedly. This hole in the plane barrier only allowed for dancing like jumping. The lowest level demons such as demons pass through. This is really not good news. It longs for food, water, and blood over there!
But luckily, a group of low, dirty creatures with big noses and small eyes that it had never seen on the other side of the hole discovered it!
While chanting the abyss lord's protection loudly in his heart, Black Whip used a trick that all cunning demons would use, "pretending to be a god". The effect was good. After some words of threats and inducements, as well as the display of talents, the group of stupid and dirty creatures opposite the hole regarded it as a god.
In the following more than a month, the black whip was happy and wailing the blood city. He commands the group of alien space creatures to provide him with sufficient flesh and blood every day, but only needs to give him a little dark energy to make them worship him. This deal is worth it.
The ability of the black whip, which was nourished by flesh and blood, increased rapidly, and soon entered the fourth-level intermediate level of strength. It began to command those creatures who believed in itself to build altars. This was learned from a bad book on the street, and it is said that it was completed. Later, it can help the devil cross the plane barrier hole.
Now that the altar is almost completed, and he quietly returned to Weeping Blood City, he also found that the fire demon that he disliked more than a month ago was missing. Maybe it was killed by other "big shots". Anyway, this kind of thing There are no demons to care about every day. So Black Whip is very happy, even the creed of "Be a devil with your tail between your legs" can't stop the joy on its face.
The quiet and peaceful days always passed very quickly. In the blink of an eye, it was already the fifth day since Li Yan arrived in Mordo Town. During these days, Li Yan tirelessly absorbed the knowledge of potions, although most of this process was Spending time in the book "Introduction to Potions", his thirst for knowledge made him never tire of it. Of course, he is not a nerd. Taking the time to guide Froya in practicing magic and teasing little Ilea are things he likes to do. When communicating with the townspeople outside, his humility and enthusiasm quickly won him the respect of the town residents.
In the early morning, the sky was still dark, and the lights came on in the oak house on the south side of the town.
"Are you ready? Mr. Li Yan." Dean, who was wearing a black mage robe and wearing a black mage robe, turned around and asked with a smile as he carried a rattan backpack half a person's height on his back.
Li Yan, who was standing behind him and carrying a similar backpack, picked up the staff and nodded: "Ready."
¡°Well, let¡¯s set off, haha!¡±
The town shrouded in darkness was still quiet, and the townspeople were still sleeping. At this time, the door on the first floor of the Oak House quietly opened, and two figures walked out of the south gate of Mordo Town along the gravel path of the town.
This time Dean and Li Yan went out of town together to find herbs for making magic potions. Compared with ordinary herbs, the quantity of this herb was much smaller, which made it difficult to collect. That¡¯s why Dean decided to go out before dawn. Set off, and it should be daylight when you arrive at the collection site, giving you more time to search for herbs. Li Yan, who was new to potions, naturally had no objections to this. He had never even seen a complete fresh herb, let alone knew how to collect it.
Following in the footsteps of Master Dean, they walked for a while. Under Dean's instructions, the two of them turned around and entered the jungle on the left.
Gradually, the place where they could walk became narrower, the bushes blocking the road became more and more lush, and the dew began to wet the mage robes of the two.
"Mr. Dean, is this the outer or central part of the jungle?" Li Yan asked curiously, feeling like he had been walking for half an hour.
Knocking open a bush with the stick in his hand, Dean replied: "Oh, this is the outer edge of the jungle and close to the middle. You should be able to see the mountains connected to the south from the top of the tree house, right? That's the middle of the jungle, and actually they're not very far away from the town of Mordo."
"Oh." Li Yan asked again, "Then the herbs we want to collect to make potions grow better as they are closer to the center of the jungle?"
"Haha." Dean smiled when he heard his question, "Of course not, they are just herbs used to make first-level magic potions. No matter where they are, as long as the environmental conditions are similar, there is not much difference in the properties of the herbs grown. If you have the ability, you can cultivate it at home, but the cultivation process is complicated and the gain outweighs the gain, and no one is willing to do it.
As for the reason why we are walking towards the center of the jungle now, it is because I have carefully searched most of these places outside in the past ten years or so, so I need to go a little further inside. "
"I really admire you. What kinds of herbs are we mainly looking for this time?"
Dean was particularly proud when he talked about Potions. He pointed around and said, "In this area, there are more silverleaf grass, groundroot grass, peace of mind flower, and royal blood grass. Occasionally, there are also wild steel flowers, swift grass, and blood grass." Diarrhea, the environment where we are going is almost the same as here, we will just pick up the grass when the time comes."
Li Yan broke open a branch and said with a smile: "Okay, but I have never seen any real growing herbs."
"Don't worry, they are exactly the same as the patterns in the book "Introduction to Potions" Ha, look at that!" Dean, who was explaining to Li Yan while looking at the road, suddenly pointed ahead and shouted in surprise, and immediately ran away Rush over.
At this time, there was already a dim light in the sky,
Squatting on the ground, Dean pointed to a plant in front of him and asked Li Yan with a smile, "Can you tell what this is?"
After looking carefully, I saw that this was a small plant about 1.5 centimeters tall. The thick bottom leaves were spread out to form a circle with a diameter of two centimeters. The most peculiar thing was that the green leaves looked like they were splashed with blood. The contrast between bright red and green on the beach is very clear and charming.
"This is bloody diarrhea!" Li Yan said with certainty.
Dean nodded appreciatively: "Yes, we are very lucky. Blood dysentery is a very rare medicinal herb in this jungle."
"Mr. Li Yan, please pay attention to my actions in collecting this blood diarrhea."After a detailed explanation and demonstration, Dean put the collected blood diarrhea into the basket on his back, stood up and said to Li Yan, "Let's go ahead and take a look."
"Wait, Mr. Dean." He softly called the old mage who was about to take action. Li Yan raised his staff and turned to the right.
Through several piles of bushes, ten black crouching figures came quietly.